Some thoughts I had on the way home from Hard Times on Sunday一些想法，我就在回家途中，从艰难的时刻对周日

One of the reasons that the church is necessary is that individually we are too weak, foolish, afraid, or broken to embody Christ alone.原因之一，教会是有必要的是，个别我们太软弱，愚蠢，害怕，或破裂，以体现基督单。 This is also, incidentally, the reason that it isn’t wise for clergy to be placed upon a pedestal.这是也，顺便一提，理由是这不是明智的神职人员放在一个台阶。 Not only are they insufficient of themselves to embody Christ, it is commonly the case that the only reason they differ from the rest of us is not that their list of vices is shorter–it is that they add “arrogant” or “cocky” to their list.他们不仅自己的不足，以体现基督，这是普遍的情况是唯一的原因，他们不同于我们其余的是没有他们的名单罪恶是短期的，那就是他们加上“傲慢”或“刺耳”他们的名单。

The problem is that churches often become bands of people whose brokeness, foolishness, and fears become institutionalized.问题是，教会往往成为带人的brokeness ，愚昧，和恐惧成为制度化。 They become the very sorts of “power” that他们成为非常各种各样的“权力” Paul tells us保罗告诉我们 we must battle.我们必须战斗。 Often, a group of people left to their own can become a “power,” but they are certainly more power ful under effective, yet arrogant, leadership.往往是，一群人离开他们自己可以成为一个“权” ，但他们肯定是更多的权力下完整有效，但傲慢，领导。 These days we don’t value saints as much as we ought.这些天来我们不圣人的价值高达我们应该。 And we value effective, yet morally adequate leaders, too much.和我们的价值有效，但在道义上足够的领袖，太多。 Even so, we expect too much from both the saintly leaders and the effective leaders–and even more so of the rare combination of both.即使如此，我们期望太多无论从saintly领导人和有效的领导人和更难得的两者的结合。

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